Washtenaw County Kicks Off its Stuff the Bus Campaign

Washtenaw County today launches the annual "Stuff the Bus" campaign. The effort aims to collect school supplies for needy children in kindergarten through fifth grade in Washtenaw County's public schools.

Credit Washtenaw County

A school bus will be parked in front of the Target store on Carpenter Road. Kari Dorr is heading up the campaign for the county. Shes says all types of supplies are needed, including:

Pencils

Backpacks

Three-ring binders

Composition books

Erasers

Colored pencils, Crayons

Pens, Mechanical pencils

Pencil sharpeners

Folders

Hi-lighters

Index cards

Calculators

Display boards

Protractors, Rulers

Supplies can be given to volunteers on site or donations can be placed directly into boxes on the school bus. Dorr says the amount of donated supplies has increased every year, and this year the hope is to exceed $10,000 worth. The drive is being held everyday this week from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Related Content

New research from the University of Michigan shows promise in someday being able to help the human body better withstand the rigors of chemotherapy and radiation.

Jian-Guo Geng is an associate professor in the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. He's found that in mice, injecting stem cells into the intestinal tract makes the mice much better able to survive high doses of chemo-radio therapy.

Geng says the discovery may someday make it possible to cure late-stage, metastasized cancers. He says "People will not die of cancer, if our prediction is true."

The study found that 50 to 75 percent of mice treated with a stem cell injection survived what should have been lethal doses of chemotherapy.